US skeleton sliders want uniform drug testing

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — There was an offseason where U.S. skeleton athlete Katie Uhlaender got a knock on her door from drug-testers 19 times in the span of a few weeks. Sometimes they wanted blood. Sometimes they wanted urine. Often, they wanted both.

The process is annoying. It's also effective, so Uhlaender and her teammates wonder why it's not the global standard.

Uhlaender and other members of the U.S. skeleton team suggested Thursday that the rest of the world should follow the testing model employed by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, especially with the ongoing fallout from the Russian doping scandal that saw widespread accusations of cheating and now a belief that many flat-out…